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E. T. GIBSON.

PAPER TOY.

No. 585,092. Patented June 22,1897.

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E. T. GIBSON.

PAPER TOY.

No. 585,0 92. Patented June 22,1897.

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NITED STATES PATENT FFIQE EDWARD TINKI-IAM GIBSON, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

PAPER TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 585,092, dated June 22, 1897.

Application filed November 9, 1896. Serial No. 611,500. (No model.)

of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to an improved paper toy which may be utilized to represent a female in full dress or any other equally suitable object. The representation of the selected objectis to be printed on paper by a lithographic press, and then freed from supcrfi uous paper along its peculiar-shaped outlines by means of a die or scissors. It is to be shipped in the flat to the purchaser and is erected by bending the lateral margins of the lower section of the toy backward and toward each other, so as to cause this lower section to form a cone-shaped tube having its smallest circumference at a point between the bottom and the top of the toy and its, greatest in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a fiat View of my paper toy as it appears after being lithographed on a blank of card-paper and freed from superfluous paper by a die or scissors. Fig. 2 is a front view of the toy when erected. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the erected toy. Fig. 4 is a vertical anteroposterior section of the erected toy. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section of the erected toy made in close proximity to its lower margin. Fig. 6 is a similar section made in close proximity to the upper margin of its coneshaped cylinder portion. Fig. 7 is a flat view of a piece of cardpaper constructed to admit of its representing some auxiliary object which might be found desirable to detachably connect to the erected toy,,and Fig. 8

is intended to show this auxiliary object detachably connected to the erected toy (which latter in this figure is only indicated by A) by its extensions or tongues F F resting in the slots G G With the exception of the auxiliary object shown by Fig. 7 the component parts of my improved paper toy are comprised on one piece of suitable card-paper, as is shown by Fig. 1. This piece or blank has its lower portion A and its upper portion B partially detached from each other by an incision O 0, extending from the two opposite lateral sides of the blank toward, but short of, its central vertical line, thereby leaving the said portions A and B attached to each other for a short distance on each side of the central vertical line. The lower marginal line A of the said lower portion A is cut to describe the arc of a circle having its pivotal point situated on the said central vertical line of the paper blank at a suitable distance above the highest of the terminal extremities c and c of the incisions O and O, and the two opposite lateral margins A and A are cut to corre spond with chords of the said circle of which the said marginal line A forms an arc.

By forming the lower portion A of the toy in the just-described shape it admits of its being utilized to form a cone-shaped tube by bending the'opposite lateral margins A and A backward and toward each other (as indicated by Figs. 3, 5, and 6) until their marginal surfaces come in contact, and in this position the said marginal surfaces may be secured by locking the tongues D and D, formed on the margin A into the slots E and E, formed near the margin A or by any other suitable form of attachment.

The portion B of the paper toy being only attached, as hereinbefore explained, to the above-described lower portion A by a narrow point of union extending between the terminal extremities c and c of the incisions O and C, it follows that when the said lower portion A is bent, as above described, to forma cone-shaped tube the said portion B is only slightly bent backward, as is indicated by the dotted lines B in Fig. 6. On the anterior surface of the said portion B is lithographed the upper part or parts of some suitable representation--as, for instance, the hat, face, arms, and jacket of a fully-dressed female, as shown in the drawings-while 011 the anterior surface of the said portion A are lithographed the remaining parts of the representation, which in the instance which I have selected and shown in the drawings would be the dress-skirt of the female.

From the foregoing description of my improved paper toy it will be seen that when it is erected the base of the cone-shaped tube portion, being of considerable diameter, affords a substantial support for the toy in its erect position; and, furthermore, it will be seen that if it is desired to erect, in con neetion with the cone-shaped toy, a representation of some other suitable object lithographed on a blank of cardboard it may be accomplished by providing the additional object F, Fig. 7, with extensions or tongues F F which, when the toy is erected, may be in sorted, as is indicated in Fig. 8, in the slots i #9, formed in the portion A of the toy.

The construction which 1 have invented for my toy will, I am confident, be utilized by lithographers in the preparation of display advertisements and in preparing toy supplements for newspapers.

\Vhile this toy will in most instances be made of cardboard, in others I shall fashion it from stiifened calico or other cloth.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A paper toy comprising a flexible card having its upper and lower portions partially detached from each other by an incision extending from the two opposite lateral margins of the card toward, but short of, its central vertical line, the said upper portion bearing a representation of the upper parts of a dressed female figure above the waistline, and the said lower portion representing a dress-skirt pattern and constructed to form a sector of a flat ring to admit of its lateral extremities, which on their margins are provided with interengaging portions, being bent backward to form a cone-shaped tube having its apex in the vicinity of the waist-line of the female figure, and provided with vertical slits engaging lateral extensions of aflat card bearing the representation of some auxiliary object substantially as set forth.

EDlVARD TINKIIAM GIBSON.

lVitnesses:

RoB'r. PRATT, ADOLPH EDSTEN. 

